Monday, August 16, 2010

Mailroom Monday: August 16, 2010

This week 10,531 cards were mailed out - at a cost of $387.50!

The Half and Half Challenge has been a wonderful success this summer, getting us ready for the holiday shipping....Ciara's here posing with Sandy's boxes that are ready to go! On the far right, the really tall stack, is Halloween boxes, all with the appropriate mix of holiday with birthday, love, thankyou, and thinking of you. Many many thanks to all who keep us well-stocked with other-than holiday cards! The first of the Halloween boxes will start going out this week.

The small stack, just two boxes, is Thanksgiving - both are mixed boxes. The next stack to the left is Christmas...these are alllll Christmas, so some wintry birthday, love, thinking of you, etc are needed to split these into two boxes. And the far left stack? Mixed Christmas with other themes, ready to go!

Our other shippers have different proportions of each holiday type; check the Biggest Needs post which we've just updated. (It's always linked at the bottom of each Mailroom Monday report; we update it every month or so!)

Ciara's perspective! Whoa!

To heroes in Afghanistan:
341 cards to an Air Force unit
343 cards to an Army unit
341 cards to an Army unit
341 cards to a National Guard unit
341 cards to a Marine unit
341 cards to an Army unit
320 cards to an Army unit
320 cards to an Army unit
320 cards to an Army unit
320 cards to an Army unit
355 cards to an Army unit
355 cards to an Army unit
350 cards to an Army unit
350 cards to an Army unit

To heroes in Iraq:
341 cards to an Army unit
348 cards to an Army unit
341 cards to an Army unit
341 cards to an Navy unit
341 cards to an Army unit
341 cards to an Army unit
320 cards to an Air Force unit
320 cards to an Army unit
320 cards to an Army unit
320 cards to an Army unit
365 cards to an Army unit
365 cards to an Army unit
355 cards to a National Guard unit
355 cards to an Army unit
350 cards to an Army unit
350 cards to an Army unit

To heroes in Kuwait:
320 cards to an Army unit

Other fun statistics:Number of boxes sent: 1750
Number of hero contacts: 868
Total cards sent: 512,432

Deadline reminders:Half and Half Challenge: passed
Back to school - passed
September 20 - Halloween
October 1 - Thanksgiving
October 30 - Christmas
November 30 - Any Hero Christmas Letters